This book is a collection of up-to-date, detailed protocols for physical
chromosome mapping and their applications for studying genome organization and
evolution in Insects and related Arthropod species. There is a need for such a
book to understand the results being produced by the i5K project, which is
collecting whole-genome sequences for 5,000 insect and related arthropod
species. These results are often collections of unassembled contigs and
supercontigs. This book provides cytogeneticists with the necessary background
and protocols to understand and assemble chromosome-based genome assemblies from
such whole-genome sequence data.